Bryan Weekly Eagle masthead note
Official editorial note lists Mrs Lee J. Rountree as managing editor and records Bryan Texas post office entry date of April 22, 1912 under federal act.
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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1925
Page
6
Official editorial note lists Mrs Lee J. Rountree as managing editor and records Bryan Texas post office entry date of April 22, 1912 under federal act.
The article praises Dean E J Kyle of Texas A and M for founding the world’s only pecan culture course eight years ago. It credits his program with producing key professionals and county agents who expand pecan growing, including a graduate supervising a 10 000 acre irrigated orchard and another agent planting 30 000 buds.
Towns form Plant Exchange Stations to promote a flower city campaign. Neighborhood groups run the stations where residents trade surplus plants at no cost, spreading flowers and fostering community. The piece urges every citizen to help make Bryan more attractive this year.
Sheriff Jess Conlee and Deputy Cal Beard searched limestone oil field districts returning to Brazos County with the Buick taken from Houston and the William Taylor car from Bryan. The suspect in the Taylor theft remains jailed in Groesbeck with sufficient evidence for trial.
Mrs M W Sims reports her daughter Mrs Chas F Mills of Corsicana and Col Mills are in Europe after a stormy Atlantic voyage. They arrived safely at Havre and reached Paris with voyage woes but enjoy French cities. Mrs Mills wishes Paris rain could come to Brazos County Texas.
We thank friends for kindness and sympathy shown at the death and funeral of Henry Prinzel. Signed by Lizzie Prinzel and Aug R Prinzel and others.
Five groups of the Woman's Missionary Society at First Methodist Church met Monday afternoon at members' homes. Group reports note Bible readings, visits to the sick, and study lessons on China's Challenge to Christianity led by various chairmen. Members and visitors include Mrs. Crenshaw, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Gibbs, Mrs. Waldrop, Mrs. Black, and others.
At the Leonard School box supper and sale Thursday night, refreshments sales brought in slightly under $30. Weather kept attendance low, but secretary BE Eberstadt as auctioneer performed well. Doctors C A Searcy and L O Wilkerson of Bryan attended and spoke briefly on personal service, Wilkerson sharing China-related experiences.
A tabulation from the Division of Entomology at A and M College shows weekly max and min temperatures. Monday 67 63, Tuesday 65 65, Wednesday 65, Thursday 80 63, Friday 76 40, Saturday 50 38, Sunday 63 42 with an average of 74 and 60 for maximum and minimum.
An advertisement touts Blue Star Remedy for eczema itch sores and rashes. It claims deep skin penetration, immediate relief, and no clothing staining with a pleasant odor.
The Edge Forty boys and girls club in Brazos County Texas is lauded as a community builder. They won the 1924 Farm and Ranch contest with a perfect record, detailing projects in poultry canning crops and livestock and a yearbook chronicling their triumphs.
W. H. Myers deputy U S Marshal of Houston and Mrs Myers visit Bryan to see his father J A Myers and Mrs Myers mother Mrs M Mawhinney. Also visiting are County Judge H O Ferguson and other relatives. Myers spent 28 years in Bryan and left in 1916. He plans to return to Houston tonight or Sunday night.
Lee Alexander a local preacher described as a Negro, who was sought by Corsicana officers on a statutory charge, was arrested by Constable J D Conlee Sr in Bryan on Friday morning. He remains in the county jail until an officer from Corsicana arrives to take him to answer the charges.
This morning at 7 o clock a fire alarm was turned in from the Burton Bruce home on West 26th street caused by a defective flue. Little damage resulted. At 10 o clock the Lee Wilson two story frame house caught fire from a spark from the flue with practically no damage.
The Reliance community club met Friday night at the church to a social evening with school recitations readings and plays. Oak McKenzie Bryan county attorney gave a splendid talk on Boyhood Days and living a worthy life while W E Neeley rediscussed a sermon.
A Bryan area meeting featured talks on service clubs led by Lions Club representations and the value of community clubs. County Agent Benson spoke on agriculture methods for higher yields on fewer acres while J Marion Ferguson recalled Reliance days and community ambitions.
Mrs Christian Pohlman died Sunday March 15 at 1 30 p m at her Graham home. Funeral Monday at 2 p m in Graham cemetery with interment there. Sons F E Lichte Bryan Herman Lichte and Henry Lichte and sister Miss Grady Lichte were with him. Bryan Fort Worth and College friends extend sympathy.
Milam Arnold of Wellborn pleaded guilty in Bryan to dynamiting fish in the Navasota River. He was fined $25 plus costs totaling $52.50. Deputy State Game Warden Sledge Houston and Constable J D Conlee Sr arrested him last week.
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